PHOTORESTORICS GALLERY TWO
Before-and-After Digital Restorations
Some of these photos were digitally restored to eliminate very minor damage and to bring out the contrast and details, while others required the repair of more extensive damage. You can see more before-and-after samples on the Gallery One page.
LEFT: 1942 silver tone photo with severe tearing, spotting, holes, and stains, now restored, enhanced, and custom tinted. Photo of Carlos Espindola Pino courtesy of Alexandra Espindola.
RIGHT: 1890s sepia tone photo with severe fading, discoloration, and spots, now restored, enhanced, and custom tinted. Photo of Albina Mallows, courtesy of Linda Lee Schulz Anderson.
ABOVE: 1958 snapshot with scuffs, scratches, folds, and graininess, now restored. Photo of Elvis Presley and a girlfriend in Germany, courtesy of Victoria Kazlauskas.
LEFT: 1950s school photograph. Photo of Patrick Chadd's father, courtesy of Patrick Chadd.
RIGHT: 1948 acetate film negative with severe damage due to cracking, now restored. Photo of Hazel P. Oten, courtesy of the Scurlock Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
LEFT: 1960s color transparency (slide) with discoloration, now color corrected. Photo of Martin Luther King, courtesy of the Scurlock Collection, Smithsonian Institution.
RIGHT: 1947 snapshot with spots, sun flash, and scuffs, now restored with the sun flash reduced. Photo of John Buzzini and Mary Franzoni, Joelle Steele's paternal great-grandfather and his girlfriend.
LEFT: 1875 carte de visite with damage across face and on lapels, now restored. Photo of Cornelius Vanderbilt by Howell.
RIGHT: 1890s studio portrait with scuffs, scratches, folds, and spots, now restored. Photo of Emma Rosalia Smedjebacka courtesy of Debbie Halinen Santelli.
ABOVE: 1920s studio portrait with cracks, scratches, spots, and overexposure, now restored. Photo of Victoria Kazlauskas and her sister, courtesy of Vicki Kazlauskas.
LEFT: 1890s sepia tone with scuffs, spots, and fading, now restored and tinted light brown. Photo of Bill Mallows' father courtesy of Linda Lee Schulz Anderson.
RIGHT: 1858 Daguerreotype with spotting and streaking, now restored. Photo of Kate Chase Norcross, photographer unidentified.
LEFT: 1840s Daguerreotype with fading and spots, now restored. Photo of Gilpin Bennett, photographer unidentified.
RIGHT: 1864 wet collodion photograph, over-exposed with spots, now restored. Photo of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Brady.
LEFT: 1865 silver gelatin print with spotting and streaking, now restored. Photo of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner.
RIGHT: 1864, wet collodion. Photo of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Brady Studio.
LEFT: 1849 Daguerreotype. Photo of James K. Polk by Matthew Brady.
RIGHT: 1848 Daguerreotype required reconstruction of subject's mouth. Photo of Dolley Madison by Matthew Brady Studio.
LEFT: 1890 photograph which was very dark, and lightening it brought out the details. Photo of Frederick Douglass by Matthew Brady.
RIGHT: 1855 Daguerreotype heavily spotted. Photo of Martin Van Buren by J.H. Whitehurst Galleries.
LEFT: Pre-1883 photo. Photo of Édouard Manet by Félix Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon).
RIGHT: 1850 Daguerreotype. Photo of Jenny Lind by Poly Von Schneidau at Matthew Brady Studios in New York City.
LEFT: 1848 Daguerreotype. Photo of Edgar Allen Poe by William S. Hartshorn.
RIGHT: 1862 photograph. Photo of Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Brady.
